Maren Vitousek

My lab studies how stress and social interactions alter the biological state of organisms that experience them. Much of our work uses free-living passerine birds, including tree swallows, as model systems to test the neuroendocrine, epigenetic, and gut microbial impacts of stress and social connectedness, and their fitness effects.
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Roles: Faculty Investigator, Potential Undergraduate Mentor
Research Areas: Animal Hosts, Bacteria, Disease Ecology and Evolution, Microbiota and Microbiomes
Lab: https://vitousek.weebly.com/
Email: mnv6@cornell.edu